sleepeat

See also: sleep-eat

English

Etymology

From sleep +‎ eat.

Verb

sleepeat (third-person singular simple present sleepeats, present participle sleepeating, simple past sleepate, past participle sleepeaten)

1. Alternative form of sleep-eat
   • 1999, John Money, The Lovemap Guidebook: A Definitive Statement, →ISBN, page 144:

     In addition, there were also episodes of sleepwalking, sometimes aimlessly, and sometimes in connection with sleepeating when he would go to the kitchen and snack on readily available food.

   • 2008, V. Mark Durand, When Children Don't Sleep Well: Interventions for Pediatric Sleep Disorders‎^[1], Oxford University Press, →ISBN:

     Based on the results of the Albany Sleep Problems Scale (ASPS), you should discuss whether the child is experiencing sleepwalking (or related events such as sleeptalking or sleepeating), sleeping at the wrong times, or excessive sleepiness.

   • 2013, Ryan Neumann, What Had Happened‎^[2], →ISBN:

     Damn it, sleepwalking again. Well hold on a sec (glance down at the counter), make that sleepeating too.

Anagrams

• sleep-ate, sleepate